{"id":8314,"date":"2018-03-05T16:52:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8314"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T23:52:01","slug":"statistics-immigrants-nigeria-residing-canada","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/statistics-immigrants-nigeria-residing-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics about Nigerians residing in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry themeform \">\n<div class=\"entry-inner\">\n<div class=\"apss-social-share apss-theme-4 clearfix\">\n<div class=\"apss-linkedin apss-single-icon\">\n<div class=\"count apss-count\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"apss-digg apss-single-icon\">\n<div class=\"apss-icon-block clearfix\">The most recent data (2011) shows that immigrants comprised 20.6% of Canada\u2019s population; in other words, one in five people were immigrants.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2011, 27,625 immigrants from Nigeria resided in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Almost nine in ten Nigerians lived in three provinces: Ontario (62.3%), Alberta (20.2%) and Manitoba (5.2%).<\/p>\n<p>More than 50% of Nigerians resided in Toronto (14,145), 13% in Calgary (3,560) and 5% in Winnipeg (1,325).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8315\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigerian-immigrants-w-600x461.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigerian-immigrants-w-600x461.png 600w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigerian-immigrants-w-600x461-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nigerian-immigrants-w-600x461-100x77.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would like to point out that we used data from the National Household Survey (NHS) knowing that its quality is still under criticism because this survey was conducted on a voluntary basis, so its validity, reliability and comparability with other instruments, such as population censuses have become an issue. In fact, before the first release of the NHS results, Statistics Canada issued warnings and cautions when using the NHS data, so use this data prudently.<\/p>\n<h4>Citizens from Nigeria landed in Canada in recent years<\/h4>\n<p>From 2006 to 2015, 33,140 new permanent residents from Nigeria landed in Canada<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"161\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\">Landing Year<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">Total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td width=\"96\">2006<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">2,593<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\">2007<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">2,371<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td width=\"96\">2008<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">2,108<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\">2009<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">3,156<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td width=\"96\">2010<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">3,907<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\">2011<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">3,102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td width=\"96\">2012<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">3,441<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\">2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">4,171<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td width=\"96\">2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">4,160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\">2015<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">4,131<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td width=\"96\">2006-2015<\/td>\n<td width=\"65\">33,140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" width=\"161\">Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cic.gc.ca\/english\/\">Government of Canada<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent data (2011) shows that immigrants comprised 20.6% of Canada\u2019s population; in other words, one in five people were immigrants. In 2011, 27,625 immigrants from Nigeria resided in Canada. Almost nine in ten Nigerians lived in three provinces: Ontario (62.3%), Alberta (20.2%) and Manitoba (5.2%). More than 50% of Nigerians resided in Toronto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[323,322],"class_list":["post-8314","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-top-news","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Statistics about Nigerians residing in Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Statistics about Nigerians residing in Canada\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/statistics-immigrants-nigeria-residing-canada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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